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Bee Karaoke
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Let’s Pollinate!
Bee diversity!
I live in soft wood and dead trees. I build my nest by using my strong jaws to cut holes into the wood I’ve chosen as my home!
I live in hollow stems and holes in wood or other materials. You can tell my nest my the thin, clear cellophane front door I seal it with!
Let’s Identify Bees!
Reed Bee
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Masked Bee
I live underfround and sleep clinging to plant stems. I build my nest in clay soil, sometimes in little communities with neighbours
Carpenter Bee
I live in the stems of plants. I use my specially shaped abdomen to scoop outside the inside of the stem to make my home!
Blue Banded Bee
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Why not try looking for some of these bees in the garden or bushland near you? How many different bees can you find? Have fun identifying them!
More Bees!
Correct!! Masked Bee aka Hylaeus sp. Did you know! Masked bees swallow pollen to then carry it to their babies!!!
Download Habitat Matching Game
Back to The Bush
Let’s Identify Bee Habitats!
I live in hollow stems and holes in wood or other materials. You can tell my nest by the thin, clear cellophane front door I seal it with!
Carpenter Bee
I live underground and sleep clinging to plant stems. I build my nest in clay soil, sometimes in little communities with neighbours!
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DIY BEE MOTEL
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What else are seedballs great for?
Back to The Field
DIY Seedballs
Let’s Go!
Big Bee Issues
Let’s Make Planters
DIY Planters
Seedball fight!
Where do bees live?
Let’s make bee motels!
Bees needs!
Various sizes of bamboo, ranging from 3-10mm in diameter, with no blockages inside
Lantana stems or other branches with soft, spongey centres
Waterproof frame (eg. hardwood frame, recycled plastic bottle with the top cut off)
Pruning clippers and a saw:Make sure you ask an adult to help you with these parts!
New Text
Download DIY
Weatherproof and non-toxic paint to decorate
Wire or string
Find the bees for what we need!
Bunny looks up!
Bye Bye Butterfly :(
Testing Display
BAM!!
Butterfly lands on the flower.
What makes a bee a bee?
Identify Bees
Clean out your bee hotel every year for a happy healthy motel!   Remove stems (checking that you don’t currently have guests!). Place stems somewhere dry outside Cut a small hole in the bottom of a large bucket and place it over the top of the stems. This ensures any left over bees can check out late and fly towards the sunlight!
Step 3
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Cut lantana and bamboo to size. Sand down rough edges, make sure they fit inside the hotel with an overhang from the roof! This is so they stay nice and dry when it rains
Care tips
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Wait for native bees to find your motel! It may take some time for native bees to find your hotel, so don’t worry if you don’t see them right away.
Bundle small groups of the prepared stems together. Fit the bundles into your frame until it is snug and secure.  TIP: Do not use glue!
Step 5
Paint your bee motel! Tip: Use non toxic paint!!
See finished hotel!
Step 4
Tie some wire or string securely around the outside of your frame Hang your bee motel 1-2 meters from the ground.
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Ingredients!
DIY Recycled Planters
What are bees needs?
Making bee motels is awesome but not a BEE all and end all solution!The best thing we can do for native bees is conserve natural habitat in the bushland!
Download DIY PDF
Drag the bees over the parts of the flower to reveal what they are!
Petals
Stamen
Flower part identification
Ovary
Stigma
Sepal
Anther
Let’s pollinate!
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Pistil
Click on the blue banded bee to cross pollinate!
What’s next?
Correct!! Peacock Carpenter Beeaka Xylocopa bombylans Did you know! Masters of construction, the carpenter bee can chew through wood with their strong mandibles (jaw) to dig a home!
Back to Kitchen Garden
Sepal
Stamen
Anther
Petals
Soil
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Scissors
Seedling
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Water
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Plastic bottle
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A mix of natives and herbs that flower all year round is a great way to support our bees!
Let’s make Seedballs
Growing gardens without pesticides helps me thrive!
Download Pollinator Find A Word
Big Bee Issues
Let’s Make Bee Motels!
Bee’s Needs!
Where do bees Live?
You can help unworry bees!
What’s Worrying Bees!
Oh the diversity!
Peacock Carpenter 
Firetail Resin Bee
Leafcutter Bee
Sugarbag Bee
Sweat Bee
Correct!! Blue Banded Bee aka Amegilla cingulata Did you know! These bees are the fastest buzz pollinators in the world! They can bang their heads 350x per second to shake pollen from a flower!
Correct!! Reed Bee aka Exoneura sp Did you know! Reed bees dig homes in stems with their bottoms that are shaped like shovels!
This project was funded by a grant from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and prepared for National Science Week 2020.
Creator Bio
VideographyDanielle RoyInesa BardakchyanAkimi WakuiAyako Yamamoto Native Bee VideographyMichael BatleyDr Megan Holcroft Child making Bee HotelSora Yamamoto Dance choreographyEmber Henninger Maddie Brett-HallLuka Brett-Hall Pollinator Patch and Kitchen Garden(La Table Verte)Yuko OgataJayanand Goya
Science Education ContentMusic and LyricsPerformance Amelie Mareva Vanderstock Web designAnimationInteractive Media ArtJez Chen
Amelie Vanderstock is a native bee ecologist at the University of Sydney and co-creator of Let's BEE Scientists. She is currently researching the role and resilience of insect pollinators in community gardens.  Passionate about growing change through art, Amelie writes and performs original music about her research.  She became an insect ecologist because she never lost her wonder at the amazing world of insects and their fascinating lives. Her dream is to share this wonder in active participatory ways with the broader community- because we are all scientists!
Jez Chen is passionate about art and its wide and wonderful uses in social change, therapy and early childhood education.  She currently works in public libraries across Sydney. There she loves to run workshops with kids and kids at heart that range from arts and crafts to coding and electronics.  Jez is passionate about public resources, community spaces and the coexistence of urban and natural environments. Artist Portfolio
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Rosalind Amery is co-creator of Let's BEE Scientists, an independent illustrator, performer and citizen scientist. They are passionate about facilitating community engagement with ecology and social justice, especially through art, performance and activism. Rosalind hopes to be a catalyst for young minds to effectively engage with the world we live in and recognise their individual power to create meaningful change.
Science Education ContentMusic and LyricsPerformance Amelie Mareva Vanderstock Web designAnimationInteractive Media ArtJez Chen IllustrationDownloadable educational resourcesRosalind Amery Song recording & mixingGabriella Brown Guitar & percussionReuben Ryan LyricsAmelie VanderstockEmber Henninger
Let’s adventure!
Welcome to the Pollinator Portal! You have entered an interactive musical adventure exploring the ecology of Australian native bees. You can interact with the elements on screen to learn, play and explore the wonderful world of these incredible pollinators.  The Pollinator Portal is optimised for Google Chrome and Firefox, on a browser. If it is loading slowly, you can leave the browser open and come back to it. The longer you are in the experience, the faster everything will load! This project was funded by a grant from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and prepared for National Science Week 2020.
A) SNAP
A BEE C COMPETITION 2020
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The winner will be selected based on a mix of creativity and number of entries per community group or school. Submissions close 9/9/2020. Winners will be informed within a month of the competition ending and announced as soon as arrangements with the school or social group have been completed.
Upload your picture or video to social media, making sure to include:  *The hashtag #ABeeC2020 *Tag @amelie_ecology  * Your name & school or community group
C) WIN
Ask your parents to take a photo or video of you being creative with your favourite part of the pollinator adventure! Your photo might bee you singing the song, dancing to the chorus, making a bee hotel, a cool bee you found, an artwork or any other creative ways you engaged with the pollinator portal!
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ENTER NOW for your chance to WIN a live show and workshop with Amelie! IT’S AS EASY AS A B C!
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Habitat Matching Game
DIY Motel 
The Pollinator Portal is an interactive musical adventure exploring the ecology of Australian native bees. Through each verse of ‘ABeeC it takes a Bee’, you can learn about pollination, bee diversity, issues bees are facing and the importance of bushland as habitat. With online challenges and downloadable DIY activities, we invite you to take this adventure outside the virtual and into the garden! Together, we can grow the change so that bees can keep on bee-ing!
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For live shows, workshops and collaborations, contact Amelie at amelie.vanderstock@sydney.edu.au Website: https://letsbeescientists.org/Instagram@amelie_ecology
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